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2007-11-21 , 00:30
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Originally Posted by treynolds View Post
I would second the hopes and wishes of the original poster. I've looked for apps on Maemo and have been less than impressed.

I am a power user of PDA's but have no, zero, zilch interest in programming or learning code. I don't need another hobby. I don't mind PAYING for decent apps, as I've spent HUNDREDS on Palm and WinMobile apps over the past 10 years.

I am not interested in the Nokia because it's Linux. I'm not trying to make a political statement against M$. I'm interested in the N810 strictly because of the hardware. I just want apps that work so I can get work done. I like what I se so far, and was especially piqued by Garnet VM, or else I wouldn't be posting here.

I would GLADLY pay Dataviz for another copy of Docs2Go. I'm used to having to pay for new software when switching platforms.
Sadly, it appears interest from the "traditional" (read: Palm, Symbian and Wince oriented) developing houses for the Nokia Internet Tablet platform is close to non-existent.

One example: I, and others, have asked, pleaded and threatened Softmaker to port their Textmaker/Planmaker combo to Maemo (it's a good, fast and feature-rich wordprocessor/spreadsheet duo for a reasonable price). I don't know about the others, but I received a non-ambiguous "Nuts!" (obviously translated into non-offensive marketingspeak) as reply.

The few commercial offerings I've come across, like "that other" PIM suite, were basically crap. I'm still wondering what the cause for this absence is: Fear of Open Source? Ignorance of the viability of commercial software on Linux platforms? Threats from Microsoft? (don't laugh; they did it before!) Absense of actual sales figures?